"Well, seein' you've been put to expense a'ready, an' I don't need money for a couple o' months yet, an' you'll most likely give more on time than in cash, I'd rather take your sixty-day note for a hundred back home with me than take the colt back. No other man could have him so cheap."
"You shall have it—on condition, written and signed, that neither of you three shall tell the story of the thief's sale. No one else can tell it."
"You'll stand by me, boys?" said the claimant, appealingly.
"Sure!"
"Then I'll take the note, Mr. Somerton, an' you've done the square thing. But say, I'll throw off five dollar ef ye'll tell me what ye paid fer him."
"No," said Philip, beginning to draw a bill of sale to include the condition already specified.
"I'll make it ten."
"No."
"Ah, say! I cayn't sleep peaceful without knowin', but this is rubbin' it in. Fifteen!"